Dr Neil Young

Senior Research Fellow MSci., PhD (Birmingham)

Neil is the support scientist for transmission electron microscopy and faculty member of the Department of Materials. He has responsibility for access to the department’s TEM instrumentation and for the planning and delivery of practical and theoretical training across the department’s electron-beam and related instruments. He also covers the role of service director for the EPSRC OXTEM access scheme for HRTEM in Oxford.

Neil has previous experience of managing and running the Oxford-JEOL 2200MCO double aberration corrected and monochromated (S)TEM, and also worked as a consultant applications specialist in high-end TEM with JEOL(UK) Ltd.His specific research interests include the development of hardware and experimental methodologies for the in-situ and ex-situ study of nanomaterials via aberration-corrected electron microscopy. These are used to observe structural and surface changes of nanoparticles at the atomic level, leading to the formation of quantitative nano-phase diagrams important in catalysis. He is also investigating other nanoscale materials such as metal-oxide nanostructures with respect to atomic structure and surface termination, plus nano-porous materials with potential applications in drug delivery.